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We All Fall Down
“Fast-moving and twisty . . . delivers one electric jolt after another.”
J.D. Rhoades, author of Breaking Cover and The Devil’s Right Hand
“The characters are complex and winning, the plot tight, and especially
rewarding, the writing itself is excellent.”
Kristy Kiernan, author of Matters of Faith and Catching Genius
As the first and only woman police officer in the fading blue-collar town of Bridgeborough, Karen McCarthy knows she has a lot to prove – to her fellow cops and, even more dauntingly, to herself.
So when she bungles a chance to arrest the number-one suspect in a cop-killing incident, Karen throws herself into the investigation in any way she can manage. Trouble is, the more she learns about the case, the less clear-cut everything seems to be. There is also a cabal of corrupt officers within the force to reckon with, and when Karen comes face-to-face with the killer himself, an already difficult case turns into a threat to her life as well as her police career.
Author and journalist Steven Hart is the author of The Last Three Politics, Murder, and the Construction of America’s First Superhighway (The New Press, 2007), a widely praised work of narrative history. Now he turns his hand to crime fiction for his first novel.
Already praised by top-notch novelists as a bold new thriller, Steven Hart’s We All Fall Down offers a realistically drawn woman cop who’s neither an adorable ditz nor a fantasy superheroine. Karen McCarthy is a very tough, highly vulnerable woman who is still learning to deal with her demons. For her, every victory is hard-won, and carries a personal cost.
J.D. Rhoades, author of Breaking Cover and The Devil’s Right Hand
“The characters are complex and winning, the plot tight, and especially
rewarding, the writing itself is excellent.”
Kristy Kiernan, author of Matters of Faith and Catching Genius
As the first and only woman police officer in the fading blue-collar town of Bridgeborough, Karen McCarthy knows she has a lot to prove – to her fellow cops and, even more dauntingly, to herself.
So when she bungles a chance to arrest the number-one suspect in a cop-killing incident, Karen throws herself into the investigation in any way she can manage. Trouble is, the more she learns about the case, the less clear-cut everything seems to be. There is also a cabal of corrupt officers within the force to reckon with, and when Karen comes face-to-face with the killer himself, an already difficult case turns into a threat to her life as well as her police career.
Author and journalist Steven Hart is the author of The Last Three Politics, Murder, and the Construction of America’s First Superhighway (The New Press, 2007), a widely praised work of narrative history. Now he turns his hand to crime fiction for his first novel.
Already praised by top-notch novelists as a bold new thriller, Steven Hart’s We All Fall Down offers a realistically drawn woman cop who’s neither an adorable ditz nor a fantasy superheroine. Karen McCarthy is a very tough, highly vulnerable woman who is still learning to deal with her demons. For her, every victory is hard-won, and carries a personal cost.
250 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 1, 2011
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March 23, 2014
We All Fall Down is a well-written book that is clever and heart stomping! I love stories about the New Jersey crime scene and corruption. What’s not to love? This characters were believable and intriguing. This story took me on a great adventure that was an enjoyable escape. This was an easy read that was action filled and entertaining all the way through.
"The river was running fast, swollen with a solid week of rain. A tree trunk had gotten caught on something fifty feet from shore, and now it was angled against the whirling, bubbling current. Broadmer pictured himself clutching that tree trunk, wet and cold but safe from the cops. If he kept himself on the far side of the trunk, they wouldn't even be able to shoot him. He might give himself to the current, let it carry him to safety."
"The river was running fast, swollen with a solid week of rain. A tree trunk had gotten caught on something fifty feet from shore, and now it was angled against the whirling, bubbling current. Broadmer pictured himself clutching that tree trunk, wet and cold but safe from the cops. If he kept himself on the far side of the trunk, they wouldn't even be able to shoot him. He might give himself to the current, let it carry him to safety."
January 13, 2015
I gave up at 29%
I stopped reading at 29% and finally succumbed to the poor layout, poor grammar, insufficient editing and overall incoherence. It started out out with such promise and very quickly failed to deliver.
I stopped reading at 29% and finally succumbed to the poor layout, poor grammar, insufficient editing and overall incoherence. It started out out with such promise and very quickly failed to deliver.
April 12, 2014
So/So
a little bit of heroic efforts combined with sexual language and a suspect scripts story line left me hurrying to the end
a little bit of heroic efforts combined with sexual language and a suspect scripts story line left me hurrying to the end
April 22, 2014
The language was foul and the characters were all scumbags. The plot line was interesting but not worth finishing.
July 22, 2014
A nice crime novel. She's the only girl on the force. Nobody seems to take her seriously. If only they did. Thingd would have been smooth sailing. Things that go wrong - will.
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